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Sky Blue Cinematix is pleased to announce its appointment by UAE-based Aspin Holding as an Associate in relation to the FC Barcelona area for a range of high-profile commercial activities and brand integrations associated with FC Barcelona (Barça) within the Republic of India.

 

Under this landmark agreement, Sky Blue Cinematix serves as the authorised representative for Aspin Holding, tasked with supporting the promotion and market engagement of the club’s prestigious brand in the Indian market in connection with “the Project” through a diverse portfolio of integrated lifestyle and commercial entities.

 

A Visionary Strategic Collaboration

 

The appointment establishes a robust framework for collaboration, reflecting a shared commitment to supporting the development of the FC Barcelona brand. Acting in the strategic, Sky support capacity, Sky Blue Cinematix will contribute to brand positioning and the marketing of the Barça lifestyle, ensuring all initiatives meet the premium global standards of both Aspin Holding and FC Barcelona.

 

“We are delighted to collaborate with Aspin Holding to support this landmark Project in India,” said Dato’ Manikandamurthy Velayoudam, Chairman of Sky Blue Cinematix. “This collaboration is about more than just business; it is about connecting a world-class brand identity with one of the world’s most dynamic markets.”

 

Broadening the Commercial Horizon

 

The mandate covers a defined commercial scope, allowing Sky Blue Cinematix to explore and facilitate various branded experiences in connection with the Project. The partnership is set to introduce the passion of Barça to the Indian audience in connection with the Project through several key avenues.

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Corona global has been recognized as the most valuable beer brand in the world for the third consecutive year in Kantar’s BrandZ 2026 Most Valuable Global Brands report, released today. Eight out of the top ten most valuable global beer brands belong to AB InBev (Brussel:ABI) (BMV:ANB) (JSE:ANH) (NYSE:BUD), according to the report ranking the best brands in the world.

 

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In 2025, Corona led AB InBev’s performance, increasing revenue by 8.3% outside of its home market with double-digit volume growth in 30 markets, while Corona Cero delivered strong double-digit volume growth. As the brand celebrated its 100th anniversary, Corona launched its global “Corona 100” platform, including a multi-year sponsorship of a renowned concert at Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro. Strong momentum continued in Q1 2026, with AB InBev delivering all-time high revenues and volume growth, led by Corona, which grew 16% outside its home market following a successful debut as the world’s first global beer sponsor of The Winter Olympics.

 

In Kantar’s BrandZ 2026 rankings, Corona is followed by Budweiser as the second most valuable beer brand in the world, with Modelo, Michelob ULTRA, Brahma, Bud Light, Skol and Stella Artois helping AB InBev secure 8 of the world’s top 10 most valuable beer brands.

 

 

“Corona’s recognition as the most valuable beer brand in the world for three consecutive years reflects our approach to building brands for long-term, sustainable growth,” said Marcel Marcondes, Global Chief Marketing Officer. “For AB InBev to have 8 of the top 10 beer brands in Kantar BrandZ’s 2026 rankings underscores the focus, consistency and creative effectiveness of our teams and partners around the world.”

 

 

BrandZ charts the way in which global brands have continued to evolve and innovate. Now in its 21st edition, it spotlights the importance of building meaningful difference where a brand meets consumer needs, stands out from competitors and remains top-of-mind in its sector for a prolonged period.

 

 

“Corona’s performance in Kantar BrandZ’s global rankings shows what strong brands achieve when they are built with discipline, over time. Brand value comes from being meaningfully different in ways people recognise, showing up consistently and staying relevant as the world changes. That doesn’t change, even as technology introduces new ways for people to discover and interact with brands. Marketers still need to make clear decisions about what their brand stands for and how it shows up in the real world. That’s something the Corona team continues to get right,” said Paul Zwillenberg, CEO of Kantar.

 

 

Kantar BrandZ is a global ranking that assesses brand value by combining financial data and extensive brand equity research, offering an in-depth view of over 22,000 brands in 54 markets.

 

 

About AB InBev
Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev) is a publicly traded company (Euronext: ABI) based in Leuven, Belgium, with secondary listings on the Mexico (MEXBOL: ANB) and South Africa (JSE: ANH) stock exchanges and with American Depositary Receipts on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: BUD). As a company, we dream big to create a future with more cheers. We are always looking to serve up new ways to meet life’s moments, move our industry forward and make a meaningful impact in the world. We are committed to building great brands that stand the test of time and to brewing the best beers using the finest ingredients. Beer is the drink for moderation, and for over a century, AB InBev has championed responsible drinking. We are committed to providing our consumers with Balanced Choices to enjoy on any occasion. We also invest in marketing that aims to reinforce positive behaviors, and we work with communities, customers, and partners to promote responsible consumption through evidence-based initiatives.

 

 

Our diverse portfolio of well over 400 beer brands includes global brands Budweiser^®, Corona^®, Stella Artois^® and Michelob Ultra^®; multi-country brands Beck’s^®, Hoegaarden^® and Leffe^®; and local champions such as Aguila^®, Antarctica^®, Bud Light^®, Brahma^®, Cass^®, Castle^®, Castle Lite^®, Cristal^®, Harbin^®, Jupiler^®, Modelo Especial^®, Quilmes^®, Victoria^®, Sedrin^®, and Skol^®. Our brewing heritage dates back more than 600 years, spanning continents and generations. From our European roots at the Den Hoorn brewery in Leuven, Belgium. To the pioneering spirit of the Anheuser & Co brewery in St. Louis, US. To the creation of the Castle Brewery in South Africa during the Johannesburg gold rush. To Bohemia, the first brewery in Brazil. Geographically diversified with a balanced exposure to developed and developing markets, we leverage the collective strengths of approximately 137 000 colleagues based in more than 40 countries worldwide. For 2025, AB InBev’s reported revenue was 59.3 billion USD (excluding JVs and associates).

 

 

About Kantar
Kantar is the world’s leading marketing data and analytics business. We deliver the intelligence needed to power brand growth.

 

 

We provide the signals that help organisations act quickly and confidently. We empower brands to make effective marketing decisions based on predictive evidence. And we help them craft powerful growth strategies rooted in the connection between consumers, brands and enterprise value. All this is powered by our uniquely robust human and synthetic data, our unrivalled IP, our AI-native platform and the team of global brand experts that bring this all together.

 

 

About Kantar BrandZ
Kantar BrandZ is the global currency when assessing brand value, quantifying the contribution of brands to business’ financial performance. Kantar’s annual global and local brand valuation rankings combine rigorously analysed financial data, with extensive brand equity research. Since 1998, BrandZ has shared brand-building insights with business leaders based on interviews with 4.6 million consumers, for over 22,000 brands in 54 markets. Discover more about Kantar BrandZ here.

 

 

 

 

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STL Digital Limited, an IT Services and Consulting company, today announced the expansion of its AInnov™ platform with three new enterprise-grade solutions — AInnov™ Space, AInnov™ Shield, and AInnov™ Talent — designed to address critical workforce engagement, vendor risk management, and talent acquisition challenges facing enterprises today. These additions strengthen the AInnov™ portfolio and reinforce STL Digital’s commitment to delivering intelligent, experience-first products that solve real-world enterprise challenges through the power of AI.

Building on AInnov™’s vision of helping enterprises transition their operations to intelligent, data-driven ecosystems, the three new solutions target some of the most pressing business priorities organisations face today.

AInnov™ Space — One Space. Every Voice. A secure enterprise engagement platform that unifies communication across leadership, employees, and partners on a single digital hub — eliminating information silos and fostering transparency, collaboration, and a high-performing, inclusive workforce. From real-time sentiment tracking and leadership alerts to employee-driven innovation and cross-departmental recognition, AInnov™ Space brings every engagement touchpoint onto a single intelligent platform.

AInnov™ Shield — Intelligent Protection for Every Third-Party Risk. An AI-driven platform that automates the entire vendor lifecycle, delivering continuous risk monitoring, Nth-party supply chain visibility, and audit-ready compliance — shifting enterprises from reactive detection to proactive prevention. Built for the complexity of modern enterprise, the platform combines AI-powered assessments with real-time continuous monitoring to surface hidden vulnerabilities before they escalate. Centralized lifecycle management and intelligent automation eliminate operational silos, giving the security and procurement teams a single system of record to manage vendor risk.

AInnov™ Talent — From Instinct to Intelligence. An AI-powered recruitment platform that transforms hiring through automated CV parsing, intelligent candidate scoring, interview automation, real-time proctoring, and multilingual speech processing — enabling faster, more confident talent decisions. It delivers end-to-end visibility into the hiring process with AI-driven evaluation and role-based interview generation for candidate assessment. The platform ensures secure and scalable hiring through real-time proctoring and facilitates multilingual candidate interactions to support global hiring needs.

“The expansion of the AInnov™ suite of products reflects our commitment to building AI solutions that deliver real, measurable outcomes,” said Naveen Bolalingappa, CEO, STL Digital. “These platforms are purpose-built to help enterprises operate smarter, manage risk proactively, and hire with greater precision — across every market they serve.”

Business Wire India

Boomi, the data activation company for AI, today announced a major expansion of the Boomi Enterprise Platform at Boomi World 2026, introducing new capabilities across orchestrated agentic workflows, agentic engineering, governed agent connectivity, grounded agent context, and localized agent infrastructure. Together, these innovations are designed to power the agentic enterprise — where agents and humans work together to drive action and operationalize AI at scale.

 

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The enterprise has reached a defining moment as AI becomes the primary interface for work and MCP emerges as the new standard. While the shift toward a headless, agentic enterprise is inevitable, this vision is colliding with skyrocketing cloud costs and trapped data. For many, layering agents onto a fragmented landscape only magnifies governance gaps and operational risk. Boomi addresses these challenges with an active data foundation that connects, governs, and orchestrates every layer of the business. By unifying IT, developers, knowledge workers, and AI agents, Boomi provides the secure and trusted foundation required to operate wherever business happens.

 

“Every enterprise transformation has a platform moment. For agentic AI, that moment is now,” said Ed Macosky, Chief Product and Technology Officer at Boomi. “Customers don’t need more disconnected tools, they need an active data foundation that connects data, orchestrates workflows, and governs AI for people and agents. With these new innovations, we’re extending the Boomi Enterprise Platform to make that foundation a reality.”

 

 

From Fragmentation to Flow: A Platform Built for Agentic Execution

 

 

As enterprises accelerate AI adoption, many are encountering challenges in scaling beyond initial use cases due to fragmented systems and lack of operational infrastructure. To address this, Boomi introduced new capabilities across five core areas:

 

 

Governed Agent Connectivity

 

 

• Boomi Connect Provides secure, governed connectivity between AI tools (e.g. Claude, Copilot, Gemini) and enterprise applications through 1000+ managed, MCP-enabled tools. Boomi AI Gateway enables built-in policy enforcement, cost controls, and observability.
• MCP Registry Scale AI with control through a centralized catalog to discover, govern, and manage MCP servers across Boomi and third-party registries.

 

 

Orchestrated Agentic Workflows

 

• Boomi Orchestrate Helps customers turn business ideas into enterprise-grade agentic workflows faster. Business and IT teams are empowered to combine agents, APIs, integrations, event streams, and data models into one universal orchestration experience using natural language.
• Agent SIM (Labs Innovation preview) Allows organizations to simulate and validate agent behavior before deployment, increasing confidence and reducing operational risk.

 

Agentic Engineering

 

• Boomi Companion Accelerate agentic engineering on the Boomi platform. Developers can now design, build, test, deploy, and diagnose integrations through natural language using their preferred AI tools.
• Embedding Agentstudio Agents Activate agents where your team works with new APIs and embedding capabilities. Developers can invoke Boomi agents from any architecture or pipeline, while non-technical users can securely surface them within custom apps, portals, and digital experiences.

 

Grounded Agent Context

 

• Boomi Knowledge Hub Eliminate knowledge silos and deliver accurate, governed search and retrieval across your enterprise. A single, unified context layer ensures AI agents and people always work from trusted, up-to-date information.
• Boomi Meta Hub Ground AI agents and people in trusted, expert-endorsed business definitions improving agent accuracy, eliminating fragmented interpretations, and ensuring consistent business logic at scale.

 

 

Localized Agent Infrastructure

 

• Distributed Agent Runtime Reduce cloud latency and control costs by deploying agents on-premises while keeping sensitive data behind the firewall. This approach supports data privacy and infrastructure control through locally-hosted runtimes and language models.
• Agentstudio Multi-region Instances Scale agents globally and confidently by leaving agent metadata and runtime execution in specified regions, enforcing AI boundaries and regional compliance.

 

 

A Headless Future, Powered by Data Activation

 

Together, these innovations position Boomi as the orchestration and governance layer for the headless enterprise — where AI agents dynamically interact with enterprise systems without relying on traditional application interfaces. By combining integration, automation, API management, data readiness, and agent governance into a single platform, Boomi enables organizations to activate trusted data across the enterprise, orchestrate workflows spanning humans and AI agents, govern execution in real time, and scale AI with confidence.

 

 

“Through our participation in Boomi’s design partner program, we’ve had early exposure to Boomi Orchestrate and its potential to simplify how we design and execute complex workflows,” said Venkata Kalikrishna Chekka, Senior Manager, Enterprise Integration Solutions at Suffolk. “The ability to bring together integrations, APIs, and emerging AI-driven capabilities into a unified orchestration layer is a meaningful step forward. It gives us a more flexible foundation to streamline operations and explore how agent-driven processes can drive greater efficiency across the business.”

 

 

“The market is rapidly shifting toward platforms that can support not just connectivity, but governed execution across AI-driven workflows,” said Alexander Wurm, Principal Analyst, Nucleus. “As enterprises move beyond experimentation, the ability to orchestrate data, APIs, and agents within a unified architecture is becoming a critical requirement for scaling AI.”

 

 

“We’re entering the next phase of enterprise AI, where success won’t be defined by how many agents you deploy, but by how well they are connected, governed, and grounded in trusted data,” said Steve Lucas, Chairman and CEO at Boomi. “With more than 30,000 customers and AI guided by hundreds of millions of integrations, we’re helping organizations move from connected and automated to fully agentic, and turn AI into real operational impact.”

 

 

Product availability and timing may vary and are subject to change.

 

 

Additional Resources

 

 

• Read the Boomi blog for more details on this announcement and what it means for enterprises

 

 

Boomi World

 

Join the Boomi World keynotes live in Chicago on LinkedIn to hear the latest from Boomi executives, customers, and partners:

 

 

• #BoomiWorld 2026 Day 1 — Wednesday, May 13, 9 a.m. Central
• #BoomiWorld 2026 Live: Day 2— Thursday, May 14, 9 a.m. Central

 

 

Learn more about Boomi World

 

• Learn more about Boomi World
• See all of Boomi’s announcements this week in the Boomi Newsroom
• Follow official event hashtag #BoomiWorld for event coverage on LinkedIn, X, and Instagram

 

 

About Boomi
Boomi, the data activation company for AI, powers the agentic enterprise by bringing data to life across the business. The Boomi Enterprise Platform is the active data foundation that delivers essential agentic infrastructure to drive agentic transformation. By unifying agent design and governance, API and MCP management, integration and automation, and data management into a single platform, Boomi enables organizations to harness the power of AI with secure, scalable connectivity. Trusted by over 30,000 customers and supported by a network of 800+ partners, Boomi helps organizations of all sizes achieve agility, efficiency, and innovation at scale. Discover more at boomi.com.

 

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Lenovo’s ability to help mid‑market organizations reduce IT support costs, accelerate time-to-value, and improve workforce productivity at scale has earned recognition as a Leader and Star Performer in Everest Group’s 2026 Digital Workplace Services PEAK Matrix^® Assessment for Mid‑Market Enterprises.

 

Lenovo’s Digital Workplace Solutions (DWS) enable customers to improve speed, cut costs, and elevate employee experiences, helping new employees reach productivity up to 50% faster, increasing employee satisfaction by 30%, lowering end-user support costs by up to 30%, and proactively resolving up to 40% of issues to minimize downtime and business disruption¹.

 

 

Lenovo delivers these results by uniquely integrating device, services, and intelligence into a single, scalable delivery model built for the mid‑market. Through lifecycle services delivered at global scale, AI‑powered automation and insights from Lenovo xIQ, and consumption‑based flexibility through TruScale DaaS, customers gain continuous visibility and control across their digital workplace. This integrated approach enables IT leaders to move faster, reduce costs, strengthen security, and proactively improve employee experience with less operational complexity.

 

 

Framework for Evaluation

 

 

The PEAK Matrix^® Assessment incorporates a comprehensive methodology that evaluates service providers. Everest Group’s analysis recognized Lenovo’s strengths across two critical dimensions:

 

 

• Market impact: Market adoption, portfolio mix and value delivered
• Vision and capability: Vision and strategy; scope of services offered; innovation and investments; and delivery footprint

 

Lenovo was acknowledged as a Leader in overall market leadership position. Leaders demonstrate a strong proficiency in serving clients, delivering offerings tailored to the segment’s unique needs, maintaining high satisfaction by offering balanced portfolios, a clear mid-market vision, and robust contextualized solutions supported by talent and delivery models optimized for the market. They apply next-generation capabilities (including generative and agentic AI) backed by partnerships with mid-market-focused technology vendors, enabling co-created solutions and joint go-to-market efforts that accelerate time-to-value and deliver tangible operational outcomes. Leaders must continue enhancing their capabilities to offer unique benefits.

 

Lenovo’s designation as a Star Performer, one of only two providers recognized, reflects significant year-over-year improvement in both market impact and capability.

 

 

Key factors behind Lenovo’s Star Performer recognition include:

 

 

• Demonstrated business impact: Strong growth in Digital Workplace Solutions adoption among mid-market organizations, driven by the ability to reduce complexity and improve IT efficiency

 

• Faster issue resolution and onboarding: Customers cite Lenovo’s responsiveness and integrated support model as key to minimizing downtime and accelerating transitions

• AI-led service innovation: Continued investment in hyper-personalized, AI-driven workplace services that enhance employee experience and productivity

• Ecosystem-driven scale: A focused partner ecosystem that enables co-creation and faster deployment, helping customers scale solutions with confidence

As a result, year-over-year, Lenovo strengthened its Leaders positioning.

 

“Everest Group is rigorous in its research; to be named a Leader and Star Performer in its DWS PEAK Matrix Assessment is great validation of the solutions and services we empower our mid-market customers with,” said Rakshit Ghura, Vice President and General Manager, Digital Workplace Solutions, Lenovo. “The acknowledgement is an affirmation of our innovation and customer-centric support – from AI-led persona identification for highly personalized experiences and service delivery, to recognized high-velocity deployments with quick responsiveness, integrated support and transition methodology. We are dedicated to serving and addressing the needs of this segment.”

 

 

For more information about Everest Group Digital Workplace Services PEAK Matrix^® Assessment 2026 – Mid-Market Enterprises see here.

 

 

For more information about Lenovo’s Digital Workplace Solutions visit our website here.

 

 

¹ According to Lenovo’s internal stats.

 

 

About Lenovo

 

 

Lenovo is a US$69 billion revenue global technology powerhouse, ranked #196 in the Fortune Global 500, and serving millions of customers every day in 180 markets. Focused on a bold vision to deliver Smarter Technology for All, Lenovo has built on its success as the world’s largest PC company with a full-stack portfolio of AI-enabled, AI-ready, and AI-optimized devices (PCs, workstations, smartphones, tablets), infrastructure (server, storage, edge, high performance computing and software defined infrastructure), software, solutions, and services. Lenovo’s continued investment in world-changing innovation is building a more equitable, trustworthy, and smarter future for everyone, everywhere. Lenovo is listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange under Lenovo Group Limited (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY). To find out more visit https://www.lenovo.com, and read about the latest news via our StoryHub.

 

 

Lenovo is a trademark of Lenovo. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. ©2026 Lenovo Group Limited. All rights reserved.

 

Disclaimer

 

Licensed extracts taken from Everest Group’s PEAK Matrix^® Reports may be used by licensed third parties for use in their own marketing and promotional activities and collateral. Selected extracts from Everest Group’s PEAK Matrix^® reports do not necessarily provide the full context of our research and analysis. All research and analysis conducted by Everest Group’s analysts and included in Everest Group’s PEAK Matrix^® reports is independent and no organization has paid a fee to be featured or to influence their ranking. To access the complete research and to learn more about our methodology, please visit Everest Group PEAK Matrix^® Reports.

 

 

 

 

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From May 16 to 20, the 2026 ASC Student Supercomputer Challenge (ASC26) Grand Finals will be held at Wuxi University, bringing together 25 finalist teams selected from more than 300 participating universities worldwide. During the on-site competition, teams will independently design and deploy small-scale supercomputing clusters under a strict 5000W power constraint. They will complete a range of advanced computing challenges and deliver presentations showcasing their technical achievements and innovation, while competing for honors including the Championship and Runner-up titles, the Group Competition Award, the e Prize Challenge Award, Highest LINPACK Award, and the Best Presentation Award.

 

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Elite Universities Compete at the Forefront of AI and Scientific Computing Excellence.

 

This year’s Final challenges are focused on the frontiers of science and technology, including artificial intelligence, space exploration, quantum computing, and climate modeling. The competition problems include LeWorldModel, the latest world model developed by the research team led by Yann LeCun, who is widely recognized as a pioneer of modern computer vision; AMSS-NCKU, a numerical relativity application derived from advanced research in general relativity; QiboTN, a quantum circuit simulation framework built on tensor network architecture; and UnifoLM-WMA-0, a challenge focused on optimizing world model inference acceleration.

 

 

When some of the world’s most creative university students confront highly complex scientific and engineering problems, the outcome of the competition becomes exceptionally difficult to predict. Will Tsinghua University, a multiple-time champion across the world’s top three supercomputing competitions, and Peking University, the two-time consecutive ASC champion, continue their dominance? Can defending champion Shanghai Jiao Tong University retain its title? Meanwhile, strong contenders including Zhejiang University, National Tsing Hua University, and Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, together with first-time finalists such as Fudan University, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), and Wuxi University, do add further anticipation and suspense to this high-stakes computational showdown.

 

 

Five Groups Compete in the Advanced Simulation of Digital Twin Earth.

 

 

The ASC26 Grand Finals will continue to feature the Group Competition, with its results contributing to the overall final score. The 25 finalist universities will be randomly assigned, through a drawing process, into five collaborative teams. Each group will jointly undertake the challenge of optimizing ICON, the climate modeling application recognized by the Gordon Bell Prize for its outstanding achievements in high-performance computing.

 

 

ICON is the world’s first fully integrated Earth system simulation to achieve ultra-high spatial resolution at 1.25 kilometers and is widely regarded as a prototype for a “Digital Twin Earth.” The application plays a critical role in global and regional climate modeling, numerical weather prediction, and future climate scenario forecasting.

 

 

From static visualization to dynamic simulation, the ICON model enables The Blue Marble (Earth system) to be realistically represented within the digital world. Through collaborative innovation, university students from around the globe are encouraged to explore breakthroughs in the long-standing technical tradeoff between ultra-high resolution and full system completeness in Earth system simulations.

 

 

Turing Award Laureate Leads an Open Showcase for In-Depth Technical Exchange.

 

 

This year’s ASC Grand Finals will further enhance its communication and presentation format through the introduction of the “Best Presentation Award” and by relocating the jury defense sessions to a fully open exhibition area.

 

 

All 25 finalist teams will present at their individual booths through posters and multimedia demonstrations, showcasing their cluster architectures, optimization strategies, and competition results to expert judges, participating institutions, and on-site audiences.

 

 

A panel of experts led by Jack Dongarra, Turing Award laureate and Emeritus Professor at the University of Tennessee, will engage in in-depth discussions with each team. This fully open interaction format is designed to foster academic exchange, while strengthening the international communication and collaboration skills essential for the finalists’ future participation in complex scientific and research endeavors.

 

 

From Competition to Career — On-Site Recruitment by Leading Enterprises.

 

 

The ASC26 Finals will collaborate with leading enterprises in the fields of supercomputing and artificial intelligence to organize on-site talent recruitment activities. All participating teams and visiting observers will have the opportunity to engage directly with leading companies, explore career pathways, and potentially secure employment opportunities, enabling a meaningful transition from academic competition to real-world industrial engagements.

 

 

5000W Power Limit Pushes the Frontiers of Hardware–Software Co-Optimization

 

 

To encourage students to gain hands-on experience in real-world cluster construction and optimization practices used in production and research environments, and also addressing the growing power consumption challenges of modern computing platforms, this year’s ASC Grand Finals increases the total cluster power limit to 5000W, while requiring configurations consisting of at least three cluster nodes, with a maximum power limit of 2000W per node.

 

 

This expanded power framework provides teams with greater flexibility in system architecture design. How each team balances computational performance and energy efficiency through hardware–software co-optimization, and the level of performance breakthroughs they ultimately achieve, will represent one of the major technical highlights of the competition.

 

 

About ASC:

 

 

The ASC Student Supercomputer Challenge serves as an international platform for technical exchange and the development of the next generation of supercomputing talent with broad support from leading experts and institutions across Asia, Europe, and the United States. Through a rigorous, hands-on competitive format, ASC aims to advance academic excellence and practical skills in supercomputing application development and research, positioning high-performance computing as a catalyst for scientific discovery, technological progress, and industrial innovation. Now in its 13th edition, the ASC Student Supercomputer Challenge has engaged tens of thousands of university students from six continents, establishing itself as the world’s largest student supercomputing competition. Learn more about this exciting competition on the official website: http://www.asc-events.net/StudentChallenge/index.html

 

 

 

 

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Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation (“Toshiba”) has started to ship engineering samples of “TB9M040FTG,” a motor control device with built-in power MOSFETs for three-phase brushless DC motor drives. The latest addition to Toshiba‘s “SmartMCD™”^[1] series of motor control devices that integrates a microcontroller (MCU) and a motor driver, TB9M040FTG can directly drive three-phase brushless DC motors and is suitable for controlling small motors used in automotive equipment.

 

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Electrification of the moving parts of vehicles continues to advance, and demand is increasing for small three‑phase brushless DC motors for use in applications such as electric valves, dampers and flaps in heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems, and in grille shutters^[2]. This is also stimulating demand for devices with fewer components and downsized electronic control units (ECUs), and for field oriented control (FOC)^[3] support functions and sensorless control that secure more advanced motor control and reduce CPU loads.

 

TB9M040FTG integrates an MCU (Arm^® Cortex^®‑M23 core), flash memory, a motor driver capable of directly driving three‑phase brushless DC motors, a high‑side driver that can be used for power supply purposes, a local interconnect network (LIN)^[4] transceiver, and a power supply system that can operate at the automotive battery level, all housed in a small VQFN36 package (6×6mm (typ.)). It also incorporates a Vector Engine (VE) integrating Toshiba’s proprietary hardware, which helps to reduce CPU loads in FOC‑controlled motor applications and contributes to smaller software programs.

 

 

It also features a back electromotive force (BEMF^[5]) detection function, enabling sensorless square-wave control.

 

 

In combination, these features enable the downsizing of automotive equipment and reduced component counts, while realizing advanced and complex motor control; TB9M040FTG can support a wide range of small automotive motor applications, and LIN communication with the ECU realizes control of small motors within automotive systems.

 

 

Toshiba will continue to expand the lineup of its SmartMCD™ series equipped with the functions required for motor drives in automotive systems and to contribute to automotive system downsizing and lower component counts.

 

 

Notes:

[1] SmartMCD™: A series of automotive motor control drivers (MCDs) developed by Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation that integrate a motor driver and a microcontroller into a single device.

[2] Grille shutter: A shutter mechanism installed behind the vehicle’s front grille that automatically opens and closes according to driving conditions.

[3] Field oriented control (FOC): A typical method of vector control (a control method that independently controls motor torque and magnetic flux as orthogonal components) that uses the motor’s rotating reference frame (dq coordinate system) to independently control the magnetic flux component (d-axis) and the torque component (q-axis).

[4] Local interconnect network (LIN): One of the serial communication protocols primarily used for communication between electronic control units (ECUs) in vehicles.

[5] Back electromotive force (BEMF): A voltage induced in the motor windings as the motor rotates, generated when the rotor’s magnetic field cuts through the windings, and acting in the direction opposite to the applied voltage.

 

Applications

 

Automotive equipment

 

 

• Small brushless DC motor applications such as electric valves, HVAC dampers, flaps, and grille shutters

 

 

Features

 

• Integrates a motor driver for three‑phase brushless DC motors, enabling direct drive of three‑phase brushless DC motors (with built‑in motor‑drive MOSFETs)
• 32-bit MCU (Arm^® Cortex^®-M23), operating frequency: 40MHz (built-in low-speed and high-speed oscillators)
• Built-in memory with ECC (SEC/DED^[6])
  Code Flash: 80KBytes, SRAM: 4KBytes
• Built-in vector engine (VE) for FOC control and programmable motor driver (PMD)^[7]
• Built-in 1-shunt resistor current sense amplifier^[8], and 12-bit A/D converter
• One‑channel high‑side driver capable of supplying power to devices such as Hall‑effect sensor ICs
• Communication interfaces: LIN, UART (shared with LIN), and SPI
• Compliant with AEC‑Q100^[9] Grade 0
• Compliant with ASIL‑B^[10]

 

Notes:

[6] Built-in ECC (Error Correction Code) function supports 1-bit error correction (SEC) and 2-bit error detection (DED).

[7] Programmable motor driver (PMD): A hardware module designed for motor-control that performs PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) generation, current conduction control, and fault detection in hardware, thereby reducing the processing load required for motor-control.

[8] 1-shunt resistor current sense amplifier: The motor current is indirectly estimated using a current-sensing shunt resistor and a current-sense amplifier.

[9] AEC-Q100: An automotive electronics qualification standard established by the Automotive Electronics Council, covering the reliability and quality of automotive electronic components, particularly integrated circuits (ICs).

[10] ASIL (Automotive Safety Integrity Level): An index indicating the automotive functional safety level based on the ISO 26262 functional safety standard. ASIL‑B represents a medium safety requirement level that is higher than ASIL‑A and is applied when functional failures may have a certain level of impact on human life or vehicles.

Main Specifications

 

Part number			TB9M040FTG
Motor driver			Three‑phase brushless DC motor, 1‑channel drive (up to 2A)
Main functions			Motor control driver: shunt resistor and current‑sense amplifier   Hardware for FOC control / square wave control (VE, PMD, ENC[11])   High‑side driver (HSD): One channel (Vcc output) (power supply for devices such as Hall‑effect sensor ICs (5V (max), 40mA), ON/OFF control supported)   LIN physical layer: One channel (responder only)
Communication interfaces			LIN, UART (shared with LIN), SPI
Main error detections			Undervoltage detection (Vcc (generated 5 V))   Overvoltage detection (Vdd (generated 1.5 V))   Overcurrent detection (motor current, high‑side driver)   VCP (charge pump voltage) detection (overvoltage/undervoltage)   VDS (drain‑source voltage of built‑in MOSFETs) detection (high‑side/low‑side)   Thermal shutdown, etc.
Absolute maximum ratings	Power supply voltage Vbat (V)		-0.3 to +40
Operating ranges	Power supply voltage Vbat (V)		6 to 18
	Operating temperature　Topr (°C)		Ta=-40 to +150
			Tj=-40 to +175
Package	Name		P-VQFN36-0606-0.50-004
	Size (mm)	typ.	6.0×6.0
Reliability			Compliant with AEC-Q100 Grade 0   Compliant with ASIL-B

 

Note:

[11] Encoder input circuit (ENC): A circuit that receives signals from an encoder to detect the motor’s operating status, including position, speed, and direction of rotation.

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TB9M040FTG

 

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About Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation

 

 

Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation, a leading supplier of advanced semiconductor and storage solutions, draws on over half a century of experience and innovation to offer customers and business partners outstanding discrete semiconductors, system LSIs and HDD products.

 

 

Its 17,400 employees around the world share a determination to maximize product value, and to promote close collaboration with customers in the co-creation of value and new markets. The company looks forward to building and to contributing to a better future for people everywhere.

 

 

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Inventurus Knowledge Solutions Limited (NSE: IKS), a leading technology-enabled healthcare solutions provider and care enablement platform for the US Healthcare industry, today announced its robust financial results for the fiscal year and quarter ended March 31, 2026. The company, widely recognized as IKS Health, reported an exceptional performance, driven by a 20% year-on-year (YoY) revenue growth and a significant 48% surge in Profit After Tax (PAT) for the full financial year 2026.

 

Key Financial Highlights: FY 2026

• Revenue at Rs 31,938 million (20% YoY)

• PAT at Rs 7,216 million (48% YoY)

• EBITDA at Rs 10,913 million (38% YoY)

• Adjusted PAT at Rs 8,087 million (47% YoY)

 

Consolidated Financial Highlights for the Financial Year 2025-26

	FY2026  (INR mn)	FY2025 (INR mn)	FY26 Growth
Revenue	31,938	26,640	19.9%
PAT	7,216	4,861	48.4%
EBITDA	10,913	7,911	38.0%
Adjusted PAT	8,087	5,504	46.9%

 

Key Financial Highlights: Q4 FY26

• Revenue growth in Q4 18% YoY in INR, 13% YoY in USD

• PAT up 39% growth YoY; 12% QoQ

• Q4 EBITDA up 33% YoY; 6.6% QoQ

•  Adjusted PAT up 38% YoY; 5% QoQ

 

Consolidated Financial Highlights for the Quarter ended March 31, 2026:

	Q4 FY 2026 (INR mn)	Q3 FY 2026 (INR mn)	Q4 FY 2025 (INR mn)	Growth
Revenue	8,577	8,150	7,240	18.5% YoY
PAT	2,060	1,833	1,478	39.4% YoY
EBITDA	3,002	2,816	2,262	32.7% YoY
Adjusted PAT	2,269	2,154	1,646	37.9% YoY

 

“Our performance this fiscal year underscores the deep value we bring to clinician enterprises as they navigate an increasingly complex US healthcare landscape. Ending the year with a strong 20% YoY revenue growth in FY 2026 is a testament to the scalability of our care enablement platform,” said Sachin K. Gupta, Founder & CEO, IKS Health. “Our ‘AI + Human’ model is now the industry standard for sustainable growth, as proven by our expanding partnerships with top-tier health systems. By deploying autonomous engines and agentic AI like MyCareHub™, we are providing the clinical and financial intelligence needed to transform care delivery. We enter FY27 with the financial strength to accelerate this AI-driven momentum.”

 

Nithya Balasubramanian, CFO, IKS Health, said, “Our fiscal year concluded with exceptional operational discipline, reflected in our 38% YoY EBITDA growth and significant margin expansion. The 48% rise in PAT for the year demonstrates our ability to scale efficiently and deliver profitable growth through a resilient business model which leverages the latest technology and global delivery. With a strong balance sheet and robust cash flow generation, we are well-positioned to continue investing in our technology platform to drive long-term, sustainable value for our shareholders.”

 

Business Highlights:

• AI Portfolio Expansion: Aquihired ThinkDTM, an AI-native digital services firm, integrating a specialized team of experts to accelerate the development of patient access solutions.

• Next-Gen Product Launches: Introduced two major Epic-integrated solutions available on the Epic Connection Hub:

  • Autonomous RCM Coding Engine: An AI-driven solution achieving 95% accuracy, reducing denials through a blend of autonomous assignment and expert review.

  • MyCareHub™: An agentic AI “self-orchestrating” platform that uses multi-agent algorithms to automate and personalize patient engagement.

• Strategic AI Partnerships: Formed a collaboration with Certilytics to unify payer rules and provider workflows using agentic AI and human oversight.

• Market Expansion & Client Wins:

  • Secured a multi-year, full-platform partnership with Holyoke Medical Center to drive financial stability through AI-led clinical and administrative solutions.

  • Expanded the platform relationship with Mission Community Hospital to include development of advanced AI capabilities within the hospital environment to improve operational efficiencies.

• Expanded a major Revenue Cycle (RCM) and Value-Based Care (VBC) partnership with a Top 5 U.S. Health System, extending services into new regions and states.

 

Industry Recognition & Awards

• Recognition: ET Edge Best Organisations for Women 2026

• FE AICONIC Award: Best Use of AI in Healthcare & Lifesciences – for the IKS Health Virtual Care Assistant Solution

 

Safe Harbour

Certain statements in this release concerning our future growth prospects may be seen as forward-looking statements, which involve a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause the actuals to differ materially from such statements. It is not possible to undertake to update any such statement that may have been made from time to time.

Business Wire India

IKS Health, a global leader in care enablement solutions supporting clinicians, staff, and patients at every step of the care journey, is proud to announce the acquisition of ARAI Solutions, a pioneering, innovation-driven provider in the field of artificial intelligence. With ARAI Solutions, IKS Health is accelerating the development of a full agentic AI technology stack with capabilities to create its own more efficient small language model.

 

IKS Health currently possesses a powerful four-layer healthcare AI stack with EMR integration, platform orchestration, trust/compliance, and AI applications. ARAI’s ontology adds a critical knowledge layer, making IKS Health the only full-stack player with proprietary domain intelligence at every level.

 

ARAI’s interconnected biomedical knowledge graphs, based on peer-reviewed research, feed a central reasoning engine, directly mappable to IKS Health platform outputs. Through a large language model grounding layer, several areas will see accelerated platform development and reduced dependency on third-party AI infrastructure including:

 

• Autonomous coding

• Clinical decisions

• Denial prevention

• Prior authorization reasoning

• Precision medicine

 

“ARAI’s clinical knowledge infrastructure makes IKS Health AI operational models even more economical, reliable, auditable, and capable of reasoning,” said Sachin K. Gupta, Founder and Global CEO of IKS Health. “Uniting ARAI with IKS Health adds a valuable and complementary layer to our platform as we scale our powerful AI-driven and human-in-the-loop approach with evolving clinical and regulatory guidelines.”

 

By integrating its own clinical reasoning and medical ontologies, IKS Health strengthens its competitive edge and accelerates growth while delivering reliable, explainable results for regulators and healthcare organizations that foundation models cannot provide.

 

“It’s clear that IKS Health is poised to disrupt the health tech industry by creating AI-driven systems of action that have exponential value,” said Dr. Roland Haas, co-founder and CEO of ARAI. “ARAI is pleased to join forces with IKS Health as they extend into next-generation clinical and operational AI models.”

 

As clinical and regulatory knowledge evolves, research-backed methodologies combined with AI are shaping the future of healthcare. ARAI’s explainable AI approach converts black box AI into glass box AI and allows for predictions that are transparent, explainable, and traceable.

 

“For decades we’ve constantly pushed the frontiers of innovation and set new AI industry benchmarks,” said Dr. Asoke Talukder, co-founder and CAIO of ARAI. “By using ARAI’s framework to fill the critical AI infrastructure knowledge layer, IKS Health will be the only full-stack player with proprietary domain intelligence at every tier.”

Business Wire India

NIPPON KINZOKU CO., LTD. (TOKYO: 5491) (Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo) is proud to announce the strengthened promotion of “L-Core,” a functional stainless steel that utilizes proprietary surface modification technology to achieve extremely low contact resistance while maintaining the inherent corrosion resistance of stainless steel. We have repositioned L-Core as a strategic “Eco-Product” to support sustainable manufacturing.

 

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By integrating high-performance characteristics directly into the base material, we enable customers to skip redundant processing steps and improve material yields. This approach not only streamlines manufacturing but also reduces the environmental footprint across the entire supply chain, driving progress toward a carbon-neutral society.

 

1. Technical Features: Formation of “Carrier Doping” (Conductive Pathways)

 

 

Using proprietary surface treatment technology, we form “carrier-doped” regions within the passive film that function as pathways for electricity.

 

 

• Balancing Conductivity and Corrosion Resistance: The film is modified without being destroyed, preserving the excellent corrosion resistance inherent to stainless steel.
• Eliminating Post-Processing: Since the material itself offers low resistance, it can be used for conductive components without additional steps like plating.

 

 

2. Performance Data: Superior Contact Resistance and Long-term Stability

 

L-Core demonstrates low contact resistance comparable to semi-bright Ni plating and maintains this performance even under harsh conditions.

 

 

• Low Contact Resistance: Delivers significantly lower resistance compared to conventional stainless steel (SUS304 BA).
• High Reliability: Almost no performance degradation was observed even after 2,700 hours in a high-temperature, high-humidity environment (60°C, 95% RH).

 

 

3. Key Benefits for Customers: Cost Reduction and Quality Improvement

 

It offers advantages in both cost and quality compared to nickel-plated stainless steel.
https://www.nipponkinzoku.co.jp/assets/images/2026/05/Characteristic-comparison-with-Ni-plating.png

 

 

4. Product Specifications & Production Capabilities

 

 

• Applicable Steel Grades: All austenitic series (e.g., SUS301, SUS304, etc.)
• Thickness: 0.05 mm – 0.30 mm
• Width: Up to 200 mm
• Finishes: Compatible with all finishes except for TA (Tension Annealing)

 

 

5. Application Examples

 

• Smartphone chassis
• Flexible Printed Circuits (FPC)
• Display bezels (LCD, etc.)
• Electrical connectors

 

 

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About NIPPON KINZOKU Group

 

 

Our products have been used in a range of areas from the precision field to the construction industry. https://www.nipponkinzoku.co.jp/en/

 

 

 

 

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